Archive for August, 2009

• What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth
  Posted by Howard on August 30th, 2009 at 6:31 am, Comments: 6 comments

  Yesterday on Twitter I decided it was time to make public stock symbols of $twit and $fbook. In the tech blog world they are talked [...]

• Are You Prepared for Dow 7,500 Again?
  Posted by Howard on August 29th, 2009 at 7:13 am, Comments: No comments yet

  What if the market just turned Monday morning and as good as everything looked in the greasy world of $c, $aig, $fnm etc started looking [...]

• Are You Prepared for Dow 12,000? What if The US Sells Alaska to China AND How Do You Say 'Drill Baby Drill in Chinese'
  Posted by Howard on August 28th, 2009 at 6:24 am, Comments: 1 comment

  I was joking with a friend At Royal Bank of Canada yesterday that there are no financial rules anymore. For instance, the financial quagmire and [...]

• Stocktwits on TechTicker
  Posted by Howard on August 27th, 2009 at 5:17 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Aaron Task and I had a fun interview on Social networking and Stocktwits. I think we do a great back and forth of the key [...]

• Stocktwits…Working The Social Leverage…Ringing The Closing Bell
  Posted by Howard on August 25th, 2009 at 11:40 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  I love Stocktwits and I live and breathe ‘Social Leverage’. Today was one of those days where all the hard work pays off. My job [...]

• Conspiracies My Ass…Goldman has an Edge, BUT 52 PERCENT was There for YOU
  Posted by Howard on August 24th, 2009 at 7:04 am, Comments: 1 comment

  As the negativity and complaints grow about our government interventions and Goldman Sachs $GS insider treatment and behavior, I realize that people just deserve to [...]

• Welcome Gregor Weekly…From 140 Characters to an Actionable Portfolio
  Posted by Howard on August 23rd, 2009 at 9:03 am, Comments: 1 comment

  As entrepreneurs, writers and bloggers we all seek traction. Traction for our ideas, words and products. At Stocktwits we believe that talent rises really fast, [...]

• Musical Interlude…Triple Firre
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2009 at 7:29 am, Comments: No comments yet

  My son Max’s best friends have a band. Like all bands that make it BIG, they have a hook. The band members are triplets. It [...]

• Nokia…The Yahoo of The Rest of the World
  Posted by Howard on August 17th, 2009 at 11:00 pm, Comments: 3 comments

  WTF with Nokia $nok? Back in 1998, they owned me. I was a slave to my Nokia. Finalnd was the New Silicon Valley or Iceland [...]

• Renting IS the New Owning…Ignore the Government Math.
  Posted by Howard on August 17th, 2009 at 6:14 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Great article and title with a ton of truthiness in The Wall Street Journal declaring ‘The New American Dream…Renting . Read it. I have spent [...]

• Ten Startup Commandments
  Posted by Howard on August 15th, 2009 at 9:39 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I love this post from Biggie Smalls re his TEN start-up commandments. You have to have your own style, and I think BIggie is a [...]

• Ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell in Times Square with Stocktwits – August 25
  Posted by Howard on August 12th, 2009 at 9:46 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  It has been really fun working with Nasdaq on real-time marketing and promotional ideas that bring our community together. Without the power of social media, [...]

• Keeping the Market Simple…Intel as a 'Tell'
  Posted by Howard on August 11th, 2009 at 10:03 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  So much discussion about bull/bear, overbought/oversold…I am guilty as well. I was looking at a few old posts from January through March of this year [...]

• The Case FOR Apple…There is NO Case Against Them
  Posted by Howard on August 8th, 2009 at 10:59 pm, Comments: 10 comments

  There was ONE case against $aapl, the fact that Steve Jobs was going to die. That storm has passed and even though he will die [...]

• How Much Transparency is Enough in the Markets
  Posted by Howard on August 8th, 2009 at 7:35 am, Comments: 1 comment

  The biggest arguments waged on the markets center on transparency these days. Stocktwits is not excluded from this. It seems like until 2005-2006 when financial [...]